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April 22, 2001, Sunday

To the Editor: I was born in a third-world country, Lebanon. I am the youngest sibling in a family of 10. If you ask my poor and uneducated parents why they wanted 10 children when they could not afford to raise just one, their answer would be, It...

October 25, 1999, Monday

To the Editor: Mary Ann Glendon and Mary Haynes (Op-Ed, Oct. 20) argue that since nearly all childbearing in the developing world is the result of the desire by parents for large families, only forced birth control will bring fertility rates down....

October 21, 1999, Thursday

To the Editor: ''Putting Fertility First'' (Op-Ed, Oct. 20) ends by posing the wrong question: that ''population controllers must decide whether their desired end -- reducing fertility in the third world -- justifies the coercion that would be...

To the Editor: The world's silence about Sudan's black slave trade is shameful and hypocritical (news item, Dec. 12; Op-Ed, Dec. 8). While the West responds forcefully to practically every other case of modern-day slavery -- the sex slaves of...

December 16, 1998, Wednesday

To the Editor: Re ''Sudan: 2 Million Dead in War'' (World Briefing, Dec. 12): I recently returned from a research trip to southern Sudan, where I interviewed Sudanese Christians who have lost their wives and children to slave raids by Muslim...

December 16, 1998, Wednesday

To the Editor: Mary Ann Glendon's conclusion that the Supreme Court's decision overturning the Religious Freedom Restoration Act was ''fairly sensible'' is misplaced (Op-Ed, June 30). The act restored the Court's own ''compelling state interest''...